The National Geographic Society History Paperback Book by Gilbert Grosvenor 1937

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: THE YEAR 1938 marks the Golden Anniversary of your National Geographic Society.

In these 50 eventful years the enthusiastic support of an ever-growing membership has transformed their Society from a local group to a world enrollment of 1,100,000 members the largest educational.

It has made possible the development of their NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE to a periodical of international prestige and unique beauty.

It has enabled their Society to carry on a vast educational program body of our time and a long series of notable explorations.

Famous leaders of The Society's scientific expeditions have carried its flag to both Poles of our planet, to the loftiest height yet attained in the stratosphere, and to the greatest depth yet reached below the surface of the ocean. 

Other expeditions have studied the stars, the seven seas, the desert, the jungle, microscopic marvels of Mother Earth, and have excavated rich lost chapters of mankind's progress.

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